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Echinacea or Coneflower

Look at you, glowing like a solar fire. You're something special... You're going to rattle the stars, you are !

Happy weekend everyone… 🎈lala•*¨*•.¸¸laa♪

A thermosolar power plant in southern Israel. My first experience with a drone.

in my kitchen !!

 

(No, not really - this is a ruby red grapefruit up close and backlit with a torch)

 

"Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast." - Douglas Adams

 

If you think you understand the meaning of this quote, please please let me know, as I am racking my brains ;D

(Douglas Adams was a genius!)

 

for Smile on Saturday - theme of August 22, 2020: Freaky Fruit

 

Happy Saturday, everyone !!

 

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... Sonneneruptionen ...

in meiner Küche !!!

 

für Smile on Saturday - Thema am 22. August 2020: Freaky Fruit / Verrückte Frucht

 

Eine rote Grapefruit - aus der Nähe betrachtet und mit einer Taschenlampe hinterleuchtet

 

Ich wünsche allen einen schönen Samstag!

Sponsors

 

Skin - Heaux Solar Evo-Xtreme skin (icy tone) @ Anthem

Light / Red / Dark / Browless/with or without makeup options

 

Top - Pixicat Page Sweater @ Anthem

 

Blog - ifartsparkles.blogspot.com/2022/12/solar.html

I started with a "sphere" as my chosen word .... and ended with a solar storm!

 

For the SoS group: "Starts with S"

 

Have a happy Saturday Smile and Sliders Sunday too.

 

Cliche and Smile on Saturday: Here

Crystal ball, prisms and marbles: Here

My Glass set is here: Here

Post-processing set: Here

Still Life Compositions: Here

Storm clouds and rays of sun over ocean horizon

I first followed the tutorial of PIXIMPERFECT www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFxylWAAFSM

For the double exposure technique and used his picture material.

 

I learned I was the clumsiest human on earth and I kept deleting or modifying things without saving my progress and having to redo some steps repeatedly. The pleasing thing is by doing repetition, you actually memorize everything better. I also learn that the TAB button places everything full screen in photoshop and hides all your panels and because somehow I didn't know I panic a bit.

I typically work by intuition and handle everything until I get a result, this is why following a tutorial in stages was more painful lol. But was able to complete the task and was quite proud of the result.

 

I enjoy the project, but the result was at the end almost a copy conform from the tutorial, and I wanted to deconstruct it and produce something distinctive. Here is the result, a special Admin award for my Flickr group.

Have a great weekend

 

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Tulipa 'Blue Spectacle' from the inside out. "Somehow" a crate full of tulips from the Lyman Conservatory Bulb Show ended up at my house... :)

Sonnenwind - Solar wind - Vent solaire - Vento solare - Viento solar - Wiatr słoneczny

 

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Backlit Silver Spotted Skipper getting its energy level up by spreading its wings towards the afternoon sun.

 

Common throughout the summer and into the fall season.

Today (25Oct22) we could see a partial solar eclipse from The Netherlands.

I used a 10 + 6 stops filter to create this capture.

Have a great day, cheers!

 

Location Hellevoetsluis, The Netherlands

 

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#Curves

 

Comet SK140767 had just passed a new sun at almost light speed. While the eight-planet solar system (with a hidden ninth orb that claimed to be a planet, too) unfolded in front of its super-tele cyclops' eye, a particular moon caught its attention. It was the only moon of that system's third planet, and it was thousands of years ago that the comet had gotten that close to any planet.

 

Comet SK140767 was a little tired of relentlessly travelling through space, passing solar system after solar system. Should it aim at that moon? What would happen to the mother planet if it crashed into it? And what would happen to itself? On top of it, there seemed to be life on planet no. 3. The comet's heart sank.

 

Then, still at a distance, the comet detected the solar system's first gas giant. It had rings! Comet SK140767's mood lifted. Oh, how it loved to surf a planet's rings for a couple of centuries. And there was an asteroid belt, too! More surfing fun ahead! Comet SK140767 decided to stay in this solar system for some time. As it passed planet no. 3 and its moon, speeding up for that wonderful asteroid belt and gas giant with its fabulous rings, its heart sang with joy of the surfing fun that lay ahead of it. And on planet no. 3, the sun just came up.

 

So, curves. I couldn't really think of anything for curves. And we are all surrounded by curvy, everyday items. It was "one of these themes" where I tried this and that and wasn't happy with anything. Today, I looked around for more curvy things, and my eyes fell upon this part of a broken solar lamp. For years, it had faithfully served as a nightlight, but one day, as I brought it in from the balcony, I accidentally dropped it. Its single components didn't break, but it still wouldn't work after I put it back together. Needless to say, I still kept it for MM reasons ;)

 

The part you see here is the bullet-shaped "bulb", just a piece of translucent plastic with soft, curvy ridges/grooves all around, which, I assume, were supposed to spread the collected sunlight like a lighthouse would. At one point, I had the idea to place my small flashlight directly behind it. This nicely highlighted the ridges and gave the scene a mysterious look. I also thought that the bulb's soft tip looked like the Moon's surface as seen by the comet's "eye". This is when I had the idea of the comet. To make the curvy ridges/grooves look more like a comet's train, I used my improvised colour filters on the two bigger LED lights to add some "space colour" to the scene.

 

It's a single shot. The bulb's tip has a diameter of 5 mm / 0,19 inches.

 

HMM, Everyone!

 

Created for Treat This 88 in the Kreative People group

www.flickr.com/groups/1752359@N21/discuss/72157655204680338/

 

Many thanks to abstractartangel77 for the source image which you can see in the first comment box below or here

www.flickr.com/photos/abstractartangel77/18839350084/in/p...

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A lonely road leads to the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the California desert near the Nevada border.

On the chance I could capture a different location at high tide and sunset, I went over to the shore only to find that the tide wasn't nearly high enough for what I wanted and the sun was in the totally wrong place. As I had made the three-minute arduous expedition to the shore anyway, I played around with a few long exposures of the waves over the shore rocks and was just about to pack up when I decided I might as well wait and see if the sky did anything interesting as the sun was going down - then got lucky with this lovely 'solar flare' effect. Shot as a vertical pano to get in the foreground rocks and the sky.

I took a photo of a grove of trees after the heavy snowfall -then just applied the solarize filter in PS. The winter sky and snow colors were most affected. Kind like black snow!

Happy Sliders Sunday!

Some pretty intense atmospherics on Lindisfarne last week. Apparently this is caused by the reflection and refraction of light by tiny ice crystals in the atmosphere.

 

Such big skies up there.

 

Press L - gives it some more impact.

a small fountain we have in our little side pond...

 

designer chair altered with solar fx

Fairly sizeable prominence on today's Sun.

 

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lunar eclipse is near

but here comes the one and only solar eclipse of today :-)

 

ok, it's a chandelier found in Casa Batll, Barcelona

  

LN 84-044 F-15D from 493FS almost eclipsing the setting sun. Raf Lakenheath Home of the 48th Fighter wing.

As the sun begins to emerge to view from behind the moon, a "diamond ring" appears.

Mt Coolum taken from east side of Mt Ninderry. It was another 3 am start to see the sunrise from the top of Ninderry but it was too overcasted and the sunrise was a non event. Slightly disapointed with the pictures we had taken so far we decided to pack up and go. Just as we were about to leave the sun light started to filtrate from between the clouds giving this amazing view. One of the ironic things about this picture is that the sun started to shine quite strongly in the area where the new Sunshine Coast Solar Farm (Valdora) is being built. Good spot for a solar farm I say.

abandoned solar power test site

Marina Park, Alviso, CA

 

The drought in California continues. We rarely see a lot of cloud under solar halo in the sky.

 

加州乾旱已經好多年了,平常很難看到日暈和多雲同時出現於天空。

 

火車已經想不出甚麼點子了,請大家將就著點看吧! :-)

 

Solar do Unhão, Salvador, Bahia.

Body: Belleza Gen X

 

Head: Ceylon Evo X

 

Eyes: Avi-Glam Lucid eyes 13 & 1

 

Eyebrows: Sigrid by Arte

 

Hair: DOUX - Sophie hairstyle [

 

Skin:[theSkinnery] Emanuelle (LeLutkaEVOX) at Collabor

 

Ribs: [LERONSO] Ribs

 

Earring: Zaara : Sarika feather earrings (unrigged) R *earth*

 

Bikini: [P+A]Beatrix - Bikini Top - GENX Classic - Quetzel/Paper+Antler for The Saturday Sales

 

Parrot: [Rezz Room] Parrot.

 

Drops of water: Nanika

 

Pose: Foxcity - Beach Bunny 4

 

Place:Luane's World

 

Izzie's Adds-On

 

- Izzie's - Bikini Tan Lines

 

-Izzie's - Body & Face Beach Sand

 

-Izzie's - LeL Evo X - 05 Forehead Lines

 

- Izzie's - Face Imperfections (LeLutka Evo X)

 

-Izzie's - Summer Blush (LeLutka Evo X)

 

-Izzie's - Face Beach Sand (LeLutka Evo X)

 

Music:Lorde - Solar Power

   

Night is settling in as the sun dips below the horizon.

 

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Solarization - the effects of tone adjustments and reversal

On a cold fall day, a bighorn sheep chose to rest on a natural rock bench that had been heated by the sun. It was so content it was chewing its cud while soaking up the sunshine.

 

You may want to enlarge to see more detail of the sheep but I purposely shot for distance to get a better idea of the setting.

 

Photographed in the Colorado National Monument, Grand Junction, Colorado.

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